May 05, 2007
Yes, we have no eggs
Our chooks are not laying.
They are keeping the lawn down, the vegies fertilised and the garden well-ventilated. They have also learnt how to scare off local cats and pigeons with Ninja-Chook manouvres. They are huge, fat, fluffy and happy. They are now about seven months old. But they are not laying.
Debra from Book-a-Chook assures me it is the abnormally warm weather we are having. The warmth sending the chooks into a late-moult (true) and chooks don't lay when they're moulting. Andrew of Andrew's Feed Store in Sydney Rd suggested we try putting them on a higher-protein pellet (they eat very little pellet food, surviving on our garden alone most of the time) to try and kick-start the laying thing. Happily, he now has a 100% certified organic layer pellet so we will be giving that a try. The organic plot thickens!
Posted by Faith